If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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